Divide is too deep for immigration reform

Divide is too deep for immigration reform

Sir Frederick...

Slavery has come back into style.
With a "twist" : The process is being
subsidized by the tax payer.

Jean Smith...

We could use some here in Huntsville with unemployment under 3 percent.

Jerry Okamura...

In Hawaii, we do not need a Katrina....our unemployment rate is around 1
percent.....

I guess that blip in October is the Katrina evacuees.

Golden State Poppy...

Interesting web site. I checked out California and the unemployment
rate is 4.8 for the entire state. It has gone down steadily for 6
months.

Thumper...

How is your UNDER employment? That 3 % could be an indicator that
people need more than one job to survive.
Thumper

Gary James...

Well put. But what bothers me is that most of these criminals are
paid over minimum wage. That is a puzzler, is it not ? So how
many ways do the wealthy profit from the illegals if they pay them
more than they would have to pay local people ? I think
understanding that is the key to getting the average
American up in arms in favor of "wetback roundup 2". .

Jerry Okamura...

Because they are better workers?

Rumpelstiltskin...

Minimum wage in California is apparently $6.15 an hour.
It costs $12 to go to the movies, and $20 to buy a CD
these days.

Minimum wage in Kansas, above, seems to be
$2.15 an hour. You could do better walking in the
gutters picking up pennies and nickels that people
had dropped and didn't want to bother retrieving.
If I drop a used tissue, I pick it up and put it in a
trashbin, but I don't bother picking up pennies. I
only pick up nickels because I'm such a skinflint.

Alan Lichtenstein...

Interesting article, and I agree for the most part with it. The points
about 'guest workers' never returning to their home countries is
especially instructive.